%0 Journal Article %T Explicit n-descent on elliptic curves, I. Algebra %A John Cremona %A Tom Fisher %A Cathy O'Neil %A Denis Simon %A Michael Stoll %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %R 10.1515/CRELLE.2008.012 %X This is the first in a series of papers in which we study the n-Selmer group of an elliptic curve, with the aim of representing its elements as genus one normal curves of degree n. The methods we describe are practical in the case n=3 for elliptic curves over the rationals, and have been implemented in Magma. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606580v1